On Saturday 09 April 2005 13:12, Colin Smillie wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005 3:13 PM, Robert Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patent No. 6,674,960 (The one in question, which relates to recording > > to a hard-drive) was filed in 2002, that's 10 years after Hauppauge > > make a system for doing so. Therefore Patent No. 6,674,960 is moot > > under the terms of "Prior Art", if I recall correctly. > > Not quite a mute point, the patent would still need to be over turned. > Last I heard the average cost to over turn a patent was somewhere > around $2M in legal fees, in most cases not replayable. It alot of > smaller companies will be forced to pay a settlement rather than > fighting.
...but there are some big players now in the DVR market. It might be worth it for a big player like Comcast to get the patent overturned. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
